Chapter 18: The Secret of the Bodhisattva Statue

Although the sun in winter is not as bright as in summer, it also has a warm feeling when it shines into the house. Yuanyou took out the statue of the Bodhisattva from his bag, sat down at the table, and carefully observed it in the sun.

The material feels like iron, and in addition to being beautifully made, there is nothing special about it.

Half an hour passed, rummaging through it, and still found nothing.

He put the Bodhisattva statue on the table, and the moment the Bodhisattva statue touched the table, a sense of vibration was transmitted to Yuanyou's hand.

This is not the sense that comes from a solid thing, which part of this bodhisattva image should be empty.

He picked it up again, flipped it over, and finally found a pinpoint-sized spot at the edge of the inner circle of the seat.

You can't find such a small spot, and even if you do, you will think that it is a bubble formed by some reaction during the production of the iron tool.

Yuanyou is not very sure that there is a problem with this little point, but he really can't find a way, so he can only touch the blind cat and kill the mouse, and give it a try.

So he found a needle from the table and clicked it, half of the needle's body fell into a small dot, Yuanyou felt that there was a play, and used a little force to go down.

With a "Gabal" sound, the Bodhisattva in his hand was light, and the upper part was separated from the lotus seat.

Yuanyou's face was happy, half of each hand was held, and he looked carefully.

I saw that there were three slender gaps on the lotus seat, and there were three very short hooks under the bodhisattva's body, which were supposed to be connected mechanisms.

There was a small square hole in the middle of the rosette, and a thin layer of moisture rose from the hole.

Yuan You held the lotus seat in his hand, turned around and looked into the small square hole, and there was an irregular little thing stuck in the innermost, about the size of a fingernail, and the color was black and gray, like a stone.

"What is this?"

Thinking that his hand was not idle, he picked up an ear scoop from the table and scooped this thing, which was stuck very tightly, but it still fell into his hand with a "click".

Don't look small about this thing, it's quite weighty, its surface is not very flat, there are some small marks and small bumps, and there is a layer of water vapor.

"It's so heavy, it can't be iron, but how can it be so wet, the iron should have rusted early, and I didn't see rust marks, what material?"

Thinking about it, he walked to a cabinet, opened the drawer on the cabinet, and there were some daily tools in it, changing the taper and pliers, he pulled it a few times, saw a magnet, took it out and sucked it into the object in his hand, there was a little suction, but it was not very strong.

"Not very iron, stone? If the iron bodhisattva is genuine, the iron does not pass through yin and yang, that is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, someone wanted to hide such a thing with iron, it may be a long time, and there are human factors, and it can't be trapped, so it can also be seen through the iron body. ”

He guessed, and suddenly felt that his hands were more slippery and a little cold, so he picked it up and looked at it, and some fine water droplets were oozing from the black-gray surface.

"This thing has a lot of yin qi, so let's put it back first."

He held the rosette in his left hand, and pushed the little thing into the small square hole with his right hand.

He found that the black gray stone did not return to its place, and it was a little dangling in it, so he fiddled with his index finger to get stuck in the middle of the depression, and suddenly his finger was cold, and there was something sharp in it, and he pierced his finger.

He withdrew his finger in an instant, and a bead of blood bubbled out.

Yuan You just wanted to rub off the blood beads with his thumb, and suddenly something flew out of the lotus seat in his left hand, which was the black and gray stone.

The next change was something he didn't expect.

The black ash stone seemed to be attracted by the blood on his fingertips, and it had been absorbed to it in an instant.

Yuanyou thought to himself, "Not good! ”

I wanted to wave it off, but it was too late, the thing seemed to melt into the body from that tiny wound, and Yuanyou watched it disappear into his fingertips.

Everything came so suddenly, unprepared, who would have thought that this thing would actually fly.

Yuanyou's thoughts were confused, and he couldn't allow him to think about it, and there was a piercing and cold feeling in his hand, which quickly spread to his whole body, and at this time, the blood seemed to be frozen and seemed to flow in reverse, all organs seemed to be wrapped in ice, and the stiff pain spread all over his body.

He fell to the ground with convulsions all over his body, and his soul felt like he was in a cold hell.

This tearing sensation left him without any space to think of death.

When his consciousness began to wander and his eyes were about to drift, suddenly another thing in his body seemed to be awakened, entangled with the cold air, which made Yuanyou even more painful and fainted.

I don't know how long it took, his body calmed down, and a cloud of misty breath warmed his whole body from top to bottom, and the warm feeling brought him back from the cold.

The body was very stiff, Yuan You moved his fingers, slowly raised his palm, nothing, not even the punctured wound on his index finger was gone, if he hadn't been lying on the ground at this time, it would have been like a nightmare just now.

He slowly sat up from the ground and rubbed his temples, the world was still the same world, nothing seemed to have changed.

But the truth is that the strange thing melted into the body.

Although it was painful just now, Yuanyou had a warm feeling at this time.

He suddenly realized that he was lucky to be alive, probably because of what his father said about the blood of the sun.

He wanted to see how his body was at this time, so he stretched his muscles and bones, strangely, it was so comfortable, and there was a faint kind of indescribable full of strength.

He looked at his fingers carefully, there was no trace at all, the strangeness that happened just now, and his own bloodline, made him think of something.

I don't know what went wrong, the Yuan family has become thin in modern times, and when it came to his father's generation, he gave birth to a child from his father.

It doesn't matter if the people are not prosperous, the most terrible thing is that for various reasons, Yuanyou doesn't know anything about the Yuan family.

He only knows that the Yuan family has a bloodline called Yang Yao's blood, which can drive away all yin things, and on the surface it looks like a Taoist exorcism family, but in fact, this bloodline has a sense of mission, and it is not used to exorcise demons and kill demons, but is used to enable a hexagonal magic weapon, which can kill a monster, and this monster is called Lu.

What is Lu, the folk saying is that the ghosts that caused the drought, the reason for the formation of Lu, there are also many legends, some say that it is the daughter of the Yellow Emperor changed, some say that it is the zombie changed, and there is also said that the resentful female corpse is changed, in fact, only the Yuan family knows, these are just rumors.

By the time of Yuanyou's generation, how this Lu was formed, and what was going on, the answer was already vague.

He only knew that the appearance of the Lun would bring disaster, and if he didn't kill it, the disaster would be raging and not only endangering the world.

The Yuan family has always played the role of killers in the long river of history, but all this was disconnected in 1942.

That year, natural disasters and man-made disasters, a great drought in Henan, the magic weapon was sensitive, and Yuanyou's grandfather took the magic weapon to find the Lu and never came back.

No one knew what had happened, but not only did his grandfather not come back, but he also lost the magic weapon that killed Lu.

His father guessed that his grandfather must have been more than lucky.

At that time, Yuanyou's father was still underage, and his grandfather did not let his father go with him.

Leave him in a Taoist temple temporarily, and Ma Zhenren of the Taoist temple is an old friend of his father.

His father waited in the Taoist temple for three years, and then gave up, these three years worshiped Ma Zhenren as a teacher, learned a lot of Taoist skills, and then left the Taoist temple, a few years later married a wife and had children, after giving birth to Yuanyou, no heirs.

Later, he passed on his skills to Yuanyou.

His father has always had regrets, thousands of years of inheritance, to their generation, not only lost the magic weapon, but also lost a lot of powerful skills, his father felt ashamed of his ancestors.

His father always said that if the magic weapon can't be recovered, he really has no face to go down to see his ancestors!

But Yuanyou thinks, not to mention that he has no face to see his ancestors, and even the secrets passed down by his ancestors have not been explained clearly by the previous generation.

Yuanyou's father once relied on the ability of Ma Dao to teach, and soon became a famous Mr. Yin and Yang in ten miles and eight towns, although Yuanyou's mother died early, but he did not have a hard life with his father.

However, the good times did not last long, and when Yuanyou was seventeen or eighteen years old, one night, his father was invited away by people from a neighboring village.

He was sleeping, and vaguely heard his father's instructions when he was leaving, to go to the neighboring village to get rid of evil spirits, and to come back later, so that he would not have to wait for him for dinner.

However, these words became the last advice his father left to him.

As soon as it was dawn, news came from there that something had happened to his father.

He rushed over in a state of confusion, and his father was lying on the ground, covered in wounds, and long since he ran out of breath.

It turned out that it was the Wang family from the neighboring village who was looking for his father to get rid of evil spirits. This Wang family is not small, and the eldest of his family is a cadre in the county, so their second and third children are very domineering in the village.

A few days ago, the second and third eldest of their family dug a vegetable cellar at the back of their house, dug out a piece of jade the size of a palm, and then took it home.

As a result, within a few days, the third child of their family began to have sores and black pus, and finally his eyes began to bubble up, and he went to the doctor, and the doctor couldn't tell what was going on.

Within a few days, the second child of the Wang family also began to do this, and then he felt that it might not be a disease, but an evil spirit, so he invited Yuanyou and his father to come over.

After his father went, he asked for a long time, thinking that there might be something wrong with the piece of jade, so he asked them to take it out.

After the jade was taken out, Yuanyou and his father didn't say much, just let some people out of the yard, leaving only the Wang brothers, but many people wanted to see the excitement, so they all stood in the yard.

Yuanyou and his father bit his finger on the spot and threw the blood on the jade, but I don't know what happened, the second child of the Wang family standing next to him suddenly seemed to be a different person, as if he was possessed by something, and his movements were like mountain monkeys, flexible and fierce, and his strength was infinite, seeing who bites whom.

His father was not ambiguous, and there were a lot of guys used in the scene, but then the scene was too chaotic, and the fight reached the courtyard, and the piece of jade accidentally fell to the ground.

The jade was shattered, and the third child of the Wang family also seemed to be possessed, and became particularly ferocious.

Yuanyou's father tried his best to stop it, it became two to one, and the people in the yard who watched the excitement ran out, and after a while, the people outside felt that there was no movement in the courtyard of the Wang family, so they had the courage to go in, and found that not only Yuanyou's father was lying on the ground, but the clothes on the Wang brothers seemed to have been blown up, and they were all lying on the ground without moving.

After hearing this description, Yuanyou cried bitterly, and so far he was the only one left in the Yuan family.

Alone, but this time his father not only took his life, but also annoyed the boss of the Wang family.

The Wang family died two sons at once, and the boss of the Wang family didn't do it, so he didn't care whether he hit the evil or not, and decided that his father killed his brother, because his father was also dead, so he didn't have a stubble to find him for the time being, but he also formed a feud with his family.

It didn't take long for the upsurge of cracking down on feudal superstition, the boss of the Wang family seized this point, took people to Yuanyou's house, smashed things to vent his anger, and arrested him for labor reform.

He didn't go to school either, what he learned was what his father taught, and at that time, the social trend broke the superstition, and he didn't dare to use this ability to make a living, so he went with the flow of the train pulling coal and began a wandering life.

The year of 1976 was not peaceful, many great men died, when he wandered to Tangshan, Hebei Province, he was lucky to escape the Tangshan earthquake, how to escape is still a bizarre thing.

At the Tangshan Railway Station in Hebei Province, he begged for food during the day and hid in the waiting hall at night.

It was July, it was very hot and humid, he sat on the wall outside the waiting room to enjoy the shade, shirtless, the whole person was dark and unkempt, just such a homeless man, just looking quite scary, but a teenage child took the initiative to talk to him, and said: "You are not an ordinary person, why do you practice yourself so much?"

When Yuanyou heard this, he opened his eyes and saw that there was nothing special, but the tone was not like that of a child of that age, so he asked, "Do you know me?"

The child glanced at the door of the waiting room and sped up his speech and said: "I don't have much time, they don't believe what I say, three days later, the sky will crack, the earth will shake, leave here!" And you, don't forget your ancestors, the stone plate will appear sooner or later, live well. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a woman came out of the waiting room, saw the child talking to the homeless, ran over and grabbed the child's arm, and pulled him into the waiting room. ”

After listening, Yuanyou was really surprised, just from the content of the words, he knew that this child was not an ordinary person, and he seemed to know about his ancestors, what is the earth shaking the mountains? Three days later, at three o'clock in the morning, there was a disaster?

After pondering, he quickly got up and ran into the waiting hall, where was there any trace of the child, although he didn't find it, but he knew that the child was probably not alarmist, so he took the train to another place, just a few days later, Tangshan was earthquaked.

At 3:40 a.m. on July 28, 1976, hundreds of thousands of people died that night.

In the next two or three years, the child's words, Yuanyou has almost forgotten, life is still indefinite, and his father's affairs still have the shadow left in the past, so that he doesn't want to touch his old business, or wander around, until 1978, on a cold winter night, hungry and cold, fainted on the side of the road, and was about to freeze to death, a liberation truck, pulling a car of soldiers back to his hometown, rescued him.

There was a veteran named Luo Baifan in it, who didn't dislike him and took him back to his hometown, and the Honghe Cave Tomb Tiger that happened afterwards made him regain some confidence and become friends with Luo Baifan, and at the same time subverted the worldview of his best friend.

Yuanyou came out of the memory, looked at his finger again, still a little incredulous, he thought in his heart, he could only take one step at a time.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door, he answered, and a rich middle-aged woman pushed the door and walked in, but behind the woman, there was a mess of things at the same time.